Jasim Farhat

Jasim Farhat (4 April 1983-17 August 2006) was an al-Qaeda in Iraq militant.

Biography
Jasim Farhat was born on 4 April 1983 in Mosul, Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family. Farhat was conscripted into the Iraqi Army at the start of the Iraq War in 2003, and when Saddam Hussein was overthrown, Farhat decided to take up arms with al-Qaeda in Iraq to resist the United States occupation. Farhat fought against the Americans during their offensive in Iraqi Kurdistan (Operation Mutraqa) in 2006, and he survived the encounter. However, he was killed by the Peshmerga in a firefight near Sinjar in August.